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A week after 3.1 launched, Andro is a couple of dailies short of Stormwind Champion status with the Argent Tournament (I would've reached it yesterday, but one day last week I missed a couple of dailies due to instancing). It's been a nice diversion, though I'm still getting to grips with the jousting, and it'll be good to see a new phase. I'm not sure of the long-term appeal - I may well go more slowly through the other city's progressions, but even so you're only looking at a few weeks to max things out. After that it's just a money/seal grind (though the mounts and pets appeal to me immensely). I'm kinda hoping that the event will evolve over time (and it'd be good to see the tourney grounds grow - unlike the Shattered Sun Offensive the site doesn't appear to evolve (yet).

 One of the other major changes in 3.1 was the introduction of Dual Spec but while my Paladin Buliwyf availed himself of the system at the weekend (a healer spec and a tank spec) I held off doing so with Andro. I always planned to use the system, but hadn't had the time/motivation to do it. Last night I took the plunge (to the amazed response of one guildy "dps and dps?"). And yes, it is DPS and DPS, though the plan was to have one spec for raiding and another more tuned for battlegrounds. One thought was frostfire for raiding and arcane for PVP, and another was Arcane for raiding (Andro's current spec) and frost for PvP. The latter is what I went for in the end, though I actually kept the frost spec more raid oriented. The reason? This weeks 3.1.1 patch was to include a talent re-spec so in effect the time I spent playing with the frost raiding spec was a "freebie" test and I can adjust the talents after today's patch. It was an interesting exercise - Frost doesn't have the +hit benefits of arcane so I have to use an extra couple of bits of kit (which impacts on DPS a little). In my first attempt on the dummies I forgot that and ran at around 1600 dps (with Arcane I'm usually 2k or so self-buffed). My second attempt (with the right gear on) was around 2k, and my third and fourth more like 1800. It's got potential as a raid spec and is certainly useful for long fights (buckets of mana-regen).

3.1.1 also brings the start of Arena Season 6. I'm not a big Arena player - I dabbled briefly in Seasons 3 and 4 but am pretty hopeless - but I do play Battlgrounds, and this new season means a trickle-down of new kit. In season 5 the progression was Savage (i200 blue, honor), Hateful (i200 Purple, arena/VoA) and Deadly (i213 purple, Arena). I'd got most of the Savage kit, and the few Hateful pieces I could without an Arena rating, but from today I can start work on replacing the Savage stuff with Hateful, and the Hateful stuff with Deadly. That's something in the region of 500k honor to purchase, but I have a few things going for me. Firstly, I already have some of the Titan-Forged (Wintergrasp Token) pieces which are a mix of i200 Epics (Hat, Boots and Trinket 1) and i213 epics (robe, belt and Trinket 2), so I don't automatically need the Hateful/Deadly versions, which reduces the total to about 350k. I also have 75k of honor banked (as I'd got all the stuff I wanted already and have been to a degree avoiding WG/BGs since I capped a fortnight or so back). With a run through WG and some BGs, that's potentially a couple of pieces right off the bat (bracers and shoulders are my thought, though gloves may beat out the shoulders for now).